Cobbttgated steel end fob gondola cabs



Aug. 14, 1923. 1 1,464,517

W. E. VAN DORN CORRUGATED STEEL END FOR GONDOLA CARS Filed March 9. 1921 FIG. 4-

I Arrowsvs Patented Aug. 14, 1923.

WILLIAM E. VAN DORN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

OQRBUGATED STEEL END FOR GONDOLA CARE Application filed March 9, 1921.

' To all whom it my camera:

I WILLIAM E. VAN

Be, it known that United States, resid- DORN, a citizen of the i at Chicago, county of Cook, State of I ifi n ois, have invented a certain new and useful 1m rovement in Corru atcd Steel Ends for ondola-Cars, and doc are the following to be a full, clear, and. exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains sides of the car body.

The various features of novelty whereby my invention is characterized will hereinafter be pointed out with particularity in the claims; but, for ,a full understanding of my invention and of its object and advantages, reference may be had to the following detailed description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Figure 1 is an end elevation of a gondola car provided with an end arranged in accordance with the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of said end and fragments of the sides of the car body;

Fig. 3 is a section taken approximately on line 3-3 of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 4 is a section taken approximately on line 4--4 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawing, 1 represents a floor plate and 2, 2 the sides of a gondola car. The car end is made of corrugated sheet metal having flat portiJns such, for example, as the flat marginal portions, 3, 3, which establish the normal plane of the sheet; these flat portions being vertical in the assembled car body. The end may be made in the form of a single panel or out of a plurality of panels; there being, in the arrangement shown, two panels arranged side by side and having at their meeting edges flat marginal portions, 4, flanged outwardly as indicated at 5. Rivets. (3, unite Serial No. 450,993.

the flanges and form them into a central strengthening rib or post for the end. The flat marginal portions, 3, are provided with rearwardly-projecting flanges, 7, 7, which overlap the car sides and are fastened thereto in any suitable manner as, for example, by means of bolts, 8. The top and bottom marginal portions of the sheet are left flat and are bent outwardly to form flanges, 9 and 10, respectively; the flange 10 resting on the floor plate and being fastened thereto by means of rivets, 11, or the like.

The corrugations extend along vertical lines and preferably fill substantially the entire area of the end, merging one into the other so that in transverse section the sheet has a sinuous configuration. Furthermore, the corrugations are bent so that while their elements lie in vertical planes, they are not in the form of straight lines from top to bottom. In the arrangement shown, each corrugation is made up of two straight sections arranged and to end; the upper section, 12, starting just below the upper flange on the inner side of the normal plane of the sheet and extending downwardly and outwardly to a point about midway between the floor and the top of the car body, while the lower section, 13, begins at the foot flange, 10, also on the inner' side of the normal plane of the sheet, and extends upwardly and outwardly until it meets the upper section. The lower ends of the corrugations are secured to the floor plate by suitable attaching devices secured thereto at the points farthest removed from the normal plane! of the sheet and extending downwardly approximately parallel with the elements of the lower sections of the corrugations so as to make each corrugation in effect a st rigidly secured at its base to the floor p ate and rising upwardly therefrom. In the arrangement shown, there is an in dividual L-shaped attaching piece, 14, be tween each corrugation and the floor plate, one arm being riveted to the corrugation by means of a rivet, 15, and the other arm being riveted to the floor plate by means of a rivet, 16.

On top f the upper flange, 9, is a cap plate, 17, wider at the middle than at the ends, the cap plate having a pait, 18. ex-

the co'rru ations. The cap at its en s with rearwa ending inwardly and downwardly in contact with the extreme upper ends of the corrugations; the.members l7 and 18' being riveted respectively to the flange 9 and to late is provided extensions, 19', overlying and in any suitable manner secured to the sides of the car. Where the sides are providedwith longitudinal protecting plates, 20, lying,upon their upper edges, the extensions may conveniently be riveted to these plates. Furthermore, the extensions 19 are preferably connected with the downwardly and rearwardly inclined part,18,.by meansof webs, 21, so that the parts 17, 18 and 19 mutuallyv rcinforce each other.

While I have illustrated and described with particularity only a single preferred form of my invention; Ido not desire to 'be limited to the exact structural details thus illustrated and described; but intend to cover all forms and arrangements-which come within the terms employed in the definitions of my invention constituting the ap nded,cl'aims..

claim: l

1. A sheet metal panel having flat-portions establishing the normal plane of the sheet and parallel corrugations each comprising two straight sections arrah ed end to end and so disposed that the meeting ends of the two sections of each corrugation lie on one side of said plane and the other ends lie on the opposite side of said plane.

2. A sheet metal can end having vertical flat portions establishing-the normal plane of the sheet andparallel corrugations each comprising twostraight sections tying one above the other and arranged en to end, the meeting ends of thesections of each corrugation being located on one side of said plane and the-other ends being located on the other side of said plane. i

3. A sheet metal car end having vertical flat portions establishing the normal plane of the sheet a'ndparallel corrugations each comprising-two straightsections l ingone above the other and arranged on to end, the meeting nds of the sections of each corrugation being located on the outer side of said plane and. the otherends being located on the inner side of sai plane.

4. 'A sheet metal car end havin vertical .flat portions establishin the nogmal plane of the sheet and para lgll corrugations each comprising 'two strai t'seotions lyi one above the other and arranged end to en ,.the meeting ends of the sections of each corrugation being located on ,the outer side ofsaid plane and the other ends being located on the inner side ofsaid plane, the upper and lower marginal ortions of said'end being flanged outward outwardly from points above, said plate and having its lower end bent outwardly to form a flang'e resting on said late, said end havmg corrugations extending upwardly and 'outwardly froni points on the inner side of the sheet and near the bottom thereof 'to points on the exterior ofthe sheet at a higher elevation, and attachingplates lyin on the inner'side of said end and secure respectively to the lower ends of said corrugations and to said plate.

6. In combination, a car floor plate, a sheet metal end arranged above said late and having its lower end bent outward y to form a flange resting on said (plate, said end having corrugations 'exten i on the inner side of the sheet and near the bottom thereof to points on theexterior of the sheet at a igherelevation, and narrow L-shaped plates lfiing on the inner-side of saidend and eac having onearm attached to the lower end of -one of said corrugations and its other arm attached tosaid plate.

7. In combination, a car floor late,- a sheet metal and arranged above said plate and having its lower and bent outwardly'to form a flange restin on said plate, said end having approximate vertical corrugations the lower ends of which lie on the inner side of the plane of the sheet, and means connecting the lower ends of the corrugations ,to said floor plate on the inner's'ide ofsaid plane.

8'; A sheet metalcar end having vertical flatportions establishing the normal plane of the iaheetand parallel corrugations each comprising two straight sections lyin one aboye the other and arranged end to en the meeting ends of. the SGCBIOHSOf each corrugation, being located on the outer side of said plane and the other en'ds being' located on the inner side of said plane, theupper mar inal pqrtionof said-end being bent outwar ly to form a flange, and a metal. ca'p v lyin upon and securedto said flange.

9. he combination with the sides of a car, of a shet metal end engaged with said sides and having-vertical flat portions cstab lishing the normal plane of the sheet and parallel corrugationsleach comprising two straight sectionslying one above the other and arranged end to end, the meeting ends of the sections of eachcorrugation being located on one' side of said plane and the other and: being located on the other side of said plane, the upper. marginal portion of said end being bent outwardly to form a flange, and a cap plate secured on said flange and having extensions projecting rearwardly into-engagement with said sides.

10x11 combination, a car floor plate, a sheet metal end arranged above said plate ng upwardly and and having an upright corrugation therein, wardly to said floor late in a manner to the lower end of sai plate being bent laterform a continuation 0 the corrugation, and ally toward the opposite'side of tho sheet means for eecurin the lower end of said 10 from that on which the corrugation lies to part to said fioo'r ate.

5 form a flzin means securing said flange to In testimony w ereof, I sign this spocifisaid floor-J) a a. part scured to the lower cation. and of sai corrugation and extending down- WILLIAM E. VAN DORN. 

